Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis49
Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics28
News on fake news28
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse25
Utopia, war, and justice19
Shaping gender policies at the COPs15
Limits, frontiers, antagonism11
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies11
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments10
Critical junctures beyond the black box10
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power10
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds9
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective9
Review of Price & Harbisher (2021): Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse8
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader8
Attack of the critics8
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections8
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict7
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis7
“The rock of stability?”7
Equivocation in media communication7
Perception of charisma in text and speech7
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“You are fake news”7
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites6
Setting boundaries between crime and rights6
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
Review of Jones (2021): Viral Discourse5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South5
Visions of the good future5
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification5
Enemy narratives5
“These are not just slogans”5
Multimodality as civic participation5
A fence of opportunity4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20204
Examining political influence on language4
Traditional beliefs as target and weapon4
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump4
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration4
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Discourse theory and the turn to practice3
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
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No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is3
Navigating the ideological tide3
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings3
Review of Knoblock (2020): Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis3
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism3
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political3
‘If you see [blank], say [blank]’3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
On the language of liberalism2
Review of Ali (2024): Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla2
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’2
Review of Taylor, Goodman & Dunmore (2025): The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities2
Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences2
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
From controversy to common ground2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
From more to less ‘Civil’ borderline discourses in mainstream media and government2
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
Sailing toIthaka1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
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Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
‘They will not survive here’1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
Return migrants from the United States to Mexico1
Politician, activist… or hero?1
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
“We pursue justice”1
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics1
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
Populist radical right beyond Europe1
Review of Stefanie (2021): Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics1
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis1
Language, Politics and Media1
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh1
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Widening the North/South Divide? Representations of the role of the EU during the Covid-19 crisis in Spanish media1
The language of power or the power of language?1
Review of Feldman (2020): The Rhetoric of Political Leadership: Logic, and Emotion in Public Discourse1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
The populist radical right in Australia1
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Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
New opportunities for discourse studies1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression1
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The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”0
Review of Ajšić (2021): Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach0
Entrepreneur or capitalist?0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
Review of Van Dijk (2024): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right0
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis0
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Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
“A massive field of action”0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
Review of Baker, Vessey & McEnery (2021): The Language of Violent Jihad0
Review of Yu (2022): Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach0
What’s in a name?0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
Review of van Dijk (2021): Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
The Tennessee three0
Temporal agency of social movements0
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Claims of ownership, claims of dignity0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
Taking the left way out of Europe0
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Reverberations0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
“A closed border is a compassionate border”0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
Populism and contingency0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
Policy discourse in times of crisis0
Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Linguistic landscapes of activism0
Review of Charteris-Black (2020): Metaphors of Coronavirus0
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
The groundwork of Putin’s war0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
Activism or slacktivism?0
Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice0
Review of Lam Sut I (2023): A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government: Two Decades of Change in Macao0
De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises0
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
“The youths are wiser now”0
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Borderless fear?0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
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Disalignment in the EU0
Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Discourse and transformation0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Review of Leal (2021): English and Translation in the European Union: Unity and Multiplicity in the Wake of Brexit0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
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Inside the echo chamber0
Beyond the law0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
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‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’0
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Supplementing the tropes0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
Navigating Brexit through fear0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
Populating ‘solidarity’ in political debate0
Discourse of self-legitimation0
“Does being pretty help?”0
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer0
“Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
National identity revisited0
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach0
Framing the political conflict discourse in Chinese media0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Review of Merkle & Baer (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
Review of Wodak & Forchtner (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics0
Doing gender at the far right0
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Fighting talk0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
The power of old ideas newly expressed0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
From “them” to “us”?0
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Review of Catalano & Waugh (2020): Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
Review of Harvey (2025): The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
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Review of Waring & Tadic (2024): Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction0
Of infiltrators and wild beasts0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
“We” in the EU: (De) legitimizing power relations and status0
The delegitimisation of Europe in a pro-European country0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Political homophobia0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Review of Pennycook (2021): Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Reintroduction0
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